This article analyzes the experience and the development of a government controlled vertical marketing system for rice in the Ivory Coast, a small African country. It presents the government rationale for replacing a privately operated channel with numerous intermediaries with a vertically integrated channel, and explores reasons for the failure of this decision derived from transactions economics.
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